. Cranberry culture. Cranberries. FLOODING. 69 ply of* water is dependent upon rains, the damming of a ditch, or filling up with sand, a small cut in the embank- ment will frequently be found sufficient. For a small stream, and low head, floodgates may be constructed in summer by any ordinary workman, as fol- lows : Select cedar, or other lasting timber, (as the water will be drawn off in warm weather, thus leaving the wood-work in the most favorable condition for decay) and drive down thick planks on each side of the ditch, with their broadsides towards the outlet, for posts. Then fix a plank
. Cranberry culture. Cranberries. FLOODING. 69 ply of* water is dependent upon rains, the damming of a ditch, or filling up with sand, a small cut in the embank- ment will frequently be found sufficient. For a small stream, and low head, floodgates may be constructed in summer by any ordinary workman, as fol- lows : Select cedar, or other lasting timber, (as the water will be drawn off in warm weather, thus leaving the wood-work in the most favorable condition for decay) and drive down thick planks on each side of the ditch, with their broadsides towards the outlet, for posts. Then fix a plank, ten or twelve inches wide, in the bottom of the ditch, to serve as a mud-sill, and nail it firmly to the posts, letting it extend five or six feet beyond them, to form a portion of the wings. These wings are afterward Us^^^^^ffi^fc. FLOODGATE. boarded up along the dam, on each side of the gates, and a sheeting is constructed, reaching entirely through the dam, to convey the water off. (See fig. 28.) The corners between the wings and sheeting, as well as the space under the floodgates, should be filled up with clean sand. Boards, sliding in grooves above the mud-sill, are employed to raise or lower the head of water. In large rapid streams, or with high heads, floodgates made in this way would not be efficient. For these, plank, driven down in front of the mud-sill, is the only sure method of preventing the water from flowing under the gate. Preparations for cranberrv culture have become so ex-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original White, Joseph J. New York, Judd
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